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GLN. TALBOT. TELEGRAPH AND MESSE'NGERSERVIGE BOX.

, Patented 1VIaLy16,.1882,

No. 258,152.V

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UNITED ,STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' CHARLES N. TALBOT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TELEGRAPH AN MESSENGERSERVICE BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,152, dated May 16, 1882. Application filed November 25,1381. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES N. TALBOT, of the city and State of New York,have iuvented an Improvement -in Telegraph and Messenger Service Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

In many towns and cities, especially in the suburbs, there are dwellings and small manufactories that do not require messenger or telegraph facilities sufficiently often to make it worth whilefor each person to have a callbox. yThe same is true in buildings containing offices, and under all such circumstances telegraph and messenger service would be a great convenience. l provide one signal-box for the use of several persons, families, or business-men, the same being located ata convenient place for the use of such parties, and I provide a system by which the person rc quiring the service will be lindicated at the signal-box, so that on the arrival of the messenger atthe signal-box he will be enabled to know who wants him or what is wanted.

In carrying out my invention I find it advantageous to employ a signal-box haviugthe capacities hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, Figure l is au elevation of a signal-box adapted to my system, and Fig.

l2 is a vertical section ot' said box.

The various si goal-boxes in a city or given district are all numbered or designated in such a manner that when the door t of the .box B is opened and the crank or handle b pulled down a set ot' electric pulsations will be sent to the main or central office, indicating that particular box, so that a messenger can be scntoft' to such box. The means for giving these electric calls usually consist ot' a circuit make-and-break wheel or slide that is operated by moving the handle.

It is also customary to provide a bell, D,

"and electro-magnet, and to use a circuit-breaksignal as employed in my system.

The peculiar feature ofthe calLhox is a provision by which the person sendingrthe call can leave in the box a device by which the messen ger,on coming tothe box, can tell what is wanted. This might be accomplished by each person in the particular district having a numbered key or check-card or similar device, and placing the same in the call-box, so that the messenger,on arriving at the box and opening the same, would know where to go to obtain his instructions. This, however, might be tampered with or removed by a second person coming to the same signal-box. I avoid this by making` a receptacle, m, below the instrument in the callbox and providing a slit at o, which is covered by the door a when said door is siut, and through which the card, message, numbered check, telegram, or other thing intended for the lnessenger can be iuserted into the box and will fall tothe bottom.

The messenger has a key by which to open the door not this receptacle, so as to ascertain what is wanted, and either go to the place designated for instructions or take the telegram to the general oliice to be sent, or deliver the note or message to the place designated.' It is preferable to introduce a glass into this door a, or sides of the box,so that the messenger or sender can see whether there is anything remaining in the box.

It' the signaling-box is provided with numbers or multiple calls operated by pushbut tous or other devices, the person sending in the call may indicate at the. signal-box the thing wanted by a prearranged code, and the messenger or express-man would have to go to the sigual-box to iiud out where the call came from. v

I claim as my inventou- The combination, iu a box for telegraphic messenger service, ofan electric callin g device, b, within the box, a receptacle, m, for a message, a separate door, n, for said receptacle m,

an opening, o, in the case, through which the Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, HAROLD SERRELL.

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